>>47090716>We will always be outsiders.Everything I loved had been dead for two centuries--or, as in the case of Graeco-Roman classicism, for two millenniums. I am never a part of anything around me--in everything I am an outsider. Should I find it possible to crawl backward through the Halls of Time to that age which is nearest my own fancy, I should doubtless be bawled out of the coffee-houses for heresy in religion, or else lampooned by John Dennis till I found refuge in the deep, silent Thames, that covers many another unfortunate. -H.P. Lovecraft to Kleiner, Cole, and Moe, October 1916